The Frontier. 7U11USUKD EVltl’.V THURSDAY BY JAB. H. HIUUS. O’NEILL, - - • NEBHABKA Mexico's new tariff will malto oui beer cost 75 cents a pint in thai country. Three painters were blown from the (froat Forth bridge in Scotland the other day and killed. So much molasses is produced in Lcuisnna that it doesn't pay to buy barrels to ship it in, so it is said. It is estimated that no fewer than 70,000 girls are employed in the public bouses and drinking bars of the United Kingdom. A Truckce saloonkeeper has a curi osity in tho shape of a couple of big trout joined together like the Siamese twins. Tho body of each is perfect, but they are united by a membrane at tached to their bcllius. The are alive and frisky. Some cattlemen in South Dakota, in regions where rain has always been as scarce ns pious cowboys, went to pay the rain sharp, Melbourne, 8400 a ehower until ho creates a flood and fills up all tho ponds and hollow places and makes the place famous for its lakes. An advance guard of the Salvation army has pitched its camp in Dead wood and is throwing up fortifications. These warriors will vonturo almost any whero, but they have boon a long while making up their minds to tackle Deadwood. The lllack Hills region is not wliat it once was. The following advertisement re cently appeared in an English paper: “A cultured, earnest, godly young man desires a pastorate. Vivid preacher, musical voice, brilliant organizer. Tall and of good appearance. Blameless life. Very highest references. Be loved by aU. Salary, £120.” The pocket umbrella has not yet ar rived, but a Florida negro was out in the rain a few days ago under a com bination hat and umbrella. It was his Own manufacture, made of palmetto and was about three feet in diameter. He walked around in the Florida down pour without getting wet at all. Owners of Irrigation canals In south ern California complain that fish do much damage to the bauks by sucking the mild to obtain the fine small roots of grass and weeds that grow in it. By this means the banks are excavated and made thin, and actually become too weak to hold the pressure of a high head of water. A gun to fire under water has been Invented, and one for the United States ship Destroyer is in courso of construc tion at Bethlehem, Pa. The expert ' mental gun is to be tliirty-fivo feet long and will throw a projectile twen ty-five feet in length, containing 400 pounds of nitro-glycerine, 1,000 feel through the water. Some immigrants carry tin trunks, (t is easy to imagine what happens to a tin trunk when nn ordinary trunk falls on it. “Why anybody should make a tin trunk,” a baggagemastei says, “is morn than I can understand. They may be good enough to stand in .-a house to put things in, but they art worthless for traveling. ” Here is the inevitable contrast tc Washington and Alaska's overwhelm ing fish plenty. The herring catch in Scotland this season is very far short short of lost year’s. Up to two weeks, ago the landings were 604,039 crans, against 773,818 crans last year, a de crease of 169,779 crans. A cran, by the way, is a barrel measure. A bicyclist who was leading a party of ramblers, while coasting down a steep, smooth hill at Manitou, was going too fast to make the turn tc reach a bridge, and he plunged off the embankment In falling he clutched a railing and the machine went ovei him, but he could not maintain his •hold and he fell to the rocks below and was severely injured. According to the London Lancet, there is already a reaction in favor of Koch's famous tuberculin. It is felt that the discovery of the German phy sician has stimulated inquiry along new lines, and that it may be the first step toward a mode of treatment of infective disease, founded on a knowl edge of germs and their products, which his labors and those of his dis ciples have alone made possible. Here is the method employed by the hunters of British Columbia who poach upon the scaling grounds: When the schooner sights a seal the little boats ore lowered. A hunter armed with two shotguns and a rifle and two sail ors to pull the boat take their places and the hunt begins. The seal may be swimming at the surface, or perchance he is sleeping. The boat is pulled quietly toward the animal. In nine cases out of ten the seal takes alarm and dives out of sight before the boat is brought close enough to use the guns with effect, and in no case does the hunter shoot unless he feels sure oi his quarry. The seal when shot at once commences to sink, and the boat has to be pulled rapidly up to it, when the body is“gaffed” and hauled aboard. This is repeated as long as seal can be seen. Iq many cases only one or two ' will beTcilled during a two days' hunt, smile at other times as many as twenty will be taken. War** and Tariff. New York.Press: This is the way the American artisan's wages compare with the wages of Iiritish artisans, ac cording to Mulhall, the Iiritish statis i tieiun: The American gets. SI.03 Where the Englishman (jets.(1 Number of meat meals which the English workman has in one week 1 Number of meat meals which the American workman lias in one week. 31 A cheap coat in tlio demand of the age. So at least Cleveland says. He should add, however, that a cheap coat makes a cheap tailor. AVF.UAOI! DAILY WAOK8 OP TAILOUS. Germany, per ilny. 00 England, per day.$1.35 United States (New York state), per day.*2.50 How should we voflt as a nation to reduce the price ot clothing and estab lish 00 cents per day as the current wages of tailors? The average weekly wages of 102 oc cupations in England arc.$ 0.22 The average weekly wages of the same log occupations lu this coun try urc. .$11.00 The alleged difference in prices does not make the cost of living here greater than 117 per cent, of what it would cost to live similarly in Great Hritain. if it is that much. Still that is a candid estimate, and the Press gives it. Hut even if we concede that the American pays $1.17 for what the Hritain gets for If 1, the American gets this much out of life while the Britou gets this: The average daily wages of railroad engineers in Great Britain are 81.40. Do you know what they are in this country'.’ Well, they are 83.28. The British linen industry, according to last summer's returns of the board of trade, pays average annual wages | of $121.00. The Massachusetts linen industry, according to the state bureau of labor statistics, shows average annual earn ings of 8303.29. The British board of trade reports that the average yearly wages of men, women and children in the cotton goods industries of the United King dom are $175. 19. l)o you know what the average an nual earnings of cotton workers in Massachusetts are? Well, they are 8334.13. The joke about the plumber would hardly be appreciated in England. AVERAGE DAILY WAGES OF OASriTrEltS. England.81.28 United States.2.50 Isn't it better to have our little joke and feel that in this country tho plumber is a well paid, prosperous man and a more important olement as a consumer than he would be at English wages? in good old democratic times, under the tariff for revenue only in 1859, the daily wages of a weaver would buy 8.2 yards of standard sheeting. In 1887, under efficient protection, the weaver’s wages would buy 10.8 yards of exactly similar goods. The work ingman is benefited by protection isn't he? The Republican clubs at Cincinnati distributes 1,500 tin souvenirs for tho button hole. They were sought as eagerly as though they were gold and silver. Here are tho wages of tin smiths at homo and in England. AVERAGE DAILY WAGES—TINSMITHS. England.81 10 United States.3 00 The souvenir button not only repre sented tho starting of a new industry worth 810,000,000 annually in wages, but it was an emblem of American wages as against foreign wages. No country at tho present time is much ahead of the. United States in matters appertaining to machinery. One of tlie reasons is we pay our ma chinists good wages. AVERAGE DAILY WAGES—MACniXISTS. England .jll on United Stales (New York state). 3 00 Great Britain's hosiery industry pays average annual wages of 81(15.4(1. These figures nro from the official statistics of tho British board of trade. We also have some oflicial statistics concerning the same industry in this country from the Massachusetts bureau of statistics of labor, aud the average yearly earnings in the hosiery industry of Massachusetts are 8318.25. Will the bricklayers of New York and other cities kindly glance at the tariff picture this morning and indi cate whether they prefer American or English wages? B KICK!,.AT ERA. England, average daily wages.81.20-16 cities United States, average daily w“fre». 8.50-20 cities Remember, this is an absolutely pro tected industry, but if the partially protected industries, such as iron anil steel working, the manufacture of textiles, etc., are stricken down, the influx of labor into the absolutely pro tected industries will soon reduce wages. Yes, gravestones are dear in this country, and the magnificent piles of masonry which loom up in our great cities cost a good deal of money. And why? Read the answer in these black lines: mwoxs on ST'veccttehs. England. average daily wuges, twen tv-six cities.3o United States, average daily wages, four cities.3 75 In spite of this more buildings go up this side of the Atlantic. Consul lirown reports from Glasgow that the carpet factories of that city pay: Yearly to men.$335 75 Yearly to boys. 105 Of) Yearly to women. 115 25 Yearly to girls." 87 50 The Massachusetts bureau of statis tics of labor reports that in that state 58 per cent of the employes in carpet mills are females, and that the average yearly wages are *302.41. It is no wonder that English pocket knives are cheap. AVERAGE DAILY WaOIS CCTLERS. England.$1 20 United States (New York state).2 50 The cost of shoeing is less in Eng land than it is here, but the brawny blacksmith gets less than half the American rates of wages. average 1 ,t.cs psn day horseshoer*. England.ft 05 United States (New York state) .2 75 Puddlers in the northern counties of England get eight shillings a ton, or $1.04. In the midland counties they get eight shillings and sixpence, or $2.09. I In Pittsburg and other mills in the western iron regions they get $5.50. The bricklayers of Southampton, England, recently decided to demand an increase from sixpence half-penny to seven pence per hour. Iteckoned on the nine hour basis these mechanics were getting $1.17 per day. American bricklayers get $3.50 to $1 per day. Here is something that will interest American tobacco growers. In the Connecticut valley the aver age daily pay of the men who raise to bacco is $1.50. In Sumatra the laborers who raise tobacco get daily about 25c. What better evidence than this can be given of the need of a protective tariff'.' McKinley ami the Farmer. New York Press: The “reformer” wants to know what benefit the McKinley tariff has been to wool growers. Well, it has so stimu lated domestic wool manufacturing by reducing our imports of woolen goods 'or the first seven months it has been in force from 828,723,201 to $20,089,143 for the corresponding period last year, i that. the increased demand for do : mestic wool has kept the price nearly I up to its last year's figures, although | Australian wool has declined in the | world's market from an average price. | of $72.83 per bale last year to $55.32 per bale this year. During October, 1889, we imported 2,282,520 dozen eggs. The McKinley bill duty on eggs went into effect on October 0, 1890. Prom the first of Oc tober to the sixth we imported 1,139, 303 dozen eggs, but from the sixth to the thirty-first we imported only 123, 589 dozen. In other words the Mc Kinley bill made a home market for 1,019,028 dozen eggs in twenty-five days. Did anybody in this country eat fewer eggs in November, 1890, than in November, 1889? Yet in November, 1889, with eggs on the free list, we imported 2,468,452 dozen of eggs, but in November, 1890, under the McKin ley duty on eggs, only 127,808 dozen. And the price wasn't raised, either, for the eggs we imported in November, 1989, were invoiced at 8413,502, or 16.75 cents a dozen, while those we imported in November, 1890, were invoiced at $17,281, or only 13.94 cents a dozen. It simply means that $395,741 went into the pocket of American farmers instead of Canadian farmers. When eggs were on the free list in May, 1890, we imported 1,791,504 dozen during that month, at a total valua tion of $194,073, or 10.8 cents a dozen. Well, our imports for May, 1891, were only 196.504 dozen eggs, but tlio con sumer did not suffer, because Ameri can farmers sold 1,595,000 dozen more eSTffs; for these last imports were val ued at $16,540, or only 8.4 cents a dozen. Eggs were on the free list in ADril, 1890, and we imported 450,623 dozen. The McKinley bill made them duti able, and in April of this year, we im ported only 24,892 dozen. That turned over the market for 425,731 dozen eggs to the American i producer. Did it hurt the consumer? it doesn't seem to have done so: it must have benefited him from the ; price. The imports for April, 1890, I were valued at $47,786, or 10.6 cents a dozen, while those of April, 1891, were valued at $2,070, or 8.316 cents a dozen. THE ALLIANCE IN KANSAS. How It Was !W:ido a Democratic Aid So ciety, Similar to t hat of s utli Dakota. Atlanta Constitution: It is a note worthy fact that the republican farm ers of Kansas, as soou as they had im bibed the democratic principles of the alliance, became exceedingly bitter against their old party, and they have managed to demoralize and defeat it. Thus the alliance has accomplished in Kansas in a campaign of thirty days what rue democrats could not have ac complished in a eampaignof thirtv years To the republican farmers of Kansas the very name “democrat'' has been for more than t.wenty-five years the synonym of “rebel,’-’ “traitor,” and "copperhead.•’ it has been the key to unlock the storehouse of their sectional prejudices. It is a pity that this should be so, yet in discussing results, it con stitutes a fundamental fact that can not be ignored. “The alliance movement, however, has served to divert these republican furmers from their war memories and their sectional prejudices, and they have at least discovered that the prac tical democracy which is the basis and strength of the alliance platform, is better suited to their condition, their hopes and aspirations than the bitter ness and strife of republican partisan ship. Their point of view was so changed that, when Colonel Living ston, of tieorgia, and Colonel Polk, of North Carolina, democratic alli ance men, who went into Kansas and took part in the campaign, their speeches were cheered to the echo by I audiences that for twenty-five years or more had been voting the republican ticket straight out and without devia tion. The canvass made by Messrs. Polk and Livingston was necessarily brief, but they crowded a good deal of effective work into the space of a few days, and there can be no doubt that the speeches they made did a good deal of good.” I v>e ii.ive uu mien 10 me amazing rc j suits iu Kansas merely to show the na ture and extent of the alliance move* ! ment among the republican farmers iu the west and northwest. It shows be ! vond question that the alliance has a political mission in that region. Its mission, and one that it is carrying? out with a success that has no parallel in the history of our politics, is to teach the republican farmers to think for 1 themselves and to discuss politics freely, fairly and unbiased by sectional prejudices.” As in Kansas, so in South Dakota, the alliance for the past two years has been run as a democratic aid society, and for the only purpose of breaking1 up the republican party. However, many of its members see where it is drifting and are return n j. This fall's election will show a great falling off in the independent vote in this state. In the last two weeks of September there were more chattel mortgages satisfied in Lawrence county than in the whole of the last two preceding years. So says the Deadwood Times, yet the calamity shriekers say not a word about it. —Several enormous man-eating sharks have been killed in the Loganport, N. J., harbor, one being fifteen feet long. Let Them Answer If They Can, New York Press: One week ago the Press published as complete an anuly-! sis as could then be made of the re suits of the operation of the new tariil law. The fact and figures given were derived from the actual records of ex ports and imports and were given in detail; the opinions obtained by the Press reporters were those of mer chants, great and small, republican and^ democratic alike, doing business in New York. These opinions showed that the prices of about 'JO per cent of the articles in commonest use had either declined or remained stationary in price in the first year of the McKin ley bill, while actual statistics prove d that instead of putting a Chinese wall around the country and strangling commerce, the new tariff law had act ually increased free imports in seven months ending August 1, SS'J, 510,777 and increased exports £80,397,188. The facts presented by the Press have been copied and commented on far and near. Hut not one democratic or free trade newspaper has attempted to refute or answer them. This dis graceful apology for an answer came I from the World yesterday—after six u* tions where the train stopped aft»„ o’clock this morning there were ‘ .T groups of men and women waiting t catch a glimpse of the governor^.? tor. The intermittent rain made an demonstration impossible. At All land, a small station not far from Kick! mond, was an advance committees weicome the governor to the city the Richmond station the party Li* taken through the principal of the city to Murphy's hotel neh Governor Hill held a brief mform> ception and shook hands with a mZ her of leading local democrats, u. then retired to his room to get a litti! rest before luncheon. At 11:30 mem. bers of the local committee called Governor Hill and tdok him for a drim through the city. Shortly after 13o th, party arrived at the home of Mayor Ellison, where an informal luncheon was served. After the luncheon the party will be taken to the West More land club, returning to the hotel at 4:30 o’clock. At 8 o’clock tonight a public meeting will be held at the Mo zart academy of music at which Prej. ton Belvin will preside. Governor Hill said that he will not make a speech at this meeting. At 10 o'clock a re ception will be held at the executive mansion and at 11 o’clock the party will leave Richmond for Atlanta ’ Tim Grady Monument. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 19.—The arrange, ments for the dedication of the statue of the late Henry W. Grady and which takes place on Wednesday are about completed, and the work of decorating the city has already commenced. An immense crowd is expected to witnesi the event Governor Hill, accompan ied by General Slocum, of liroo lyn; John A. McCall and J.P. Earle, of New Vork; General Austin Lathrop, Assist ant Adjutat General McEwen and one or two others left Albany last evening for this city, accompanied by an escort of citizens of Atlanta headed by Charles S. Northen, president of the Grady Monument associalion. The party will arrive here tomorrow evening and Goverpor Hill will be tendered are ceptitM. The bronze statue has been placed in position, but is covered from top to bottom with a large sheet of canvas. FLOWER’S FOLLOWERS. Tonight Will Witness a Great Demonstn* tlon in Ills Behalf. New York, Oct. 19.—One of the big" gest democrat c demonstrations evei seen in this state will take place in Harlem tonight. It is in honor of Ros well P. Flower, the democratic can didate for governor, and consequently might be described as a monster Flow er show Over forty democratic clubs and associations will turn out from 200 to 500 men each, every club having a brass band or a drum corps. The Stuyvesant democratic club will turn out 1.000 strong, with a brass band of forty pieces, and a drum corps fifty strong, and will escort the candidate to Harlem and back. In his speech to night Flower proposes to reply to the charge of his opponent, J. Bloat Fas sett, to the effect that he is a stock holder in western railroads and woyld be benefited as much as aDy one by having the fair held in Chicago. 1-Towei says that when he went to congress he disposed of all his railroad stock sc that ho could not be charged with being a railroad legislator, although in doing so he sacrificed a great deal oi money. One of his friends says that Flower proposes to show up the world') fair question in its true light, and that he proposes further to give some inside history that will be mighty interesting reading for the people tjiat want the fair held in New York. SAW A GHOST IN BLACK. An Ohio Woman Suffering From InJurlM Caused Bjr Her Imagination. Washington C. H., Ohio., Oct. 19.— Mrs. Aleshire, a middle aged lady, sus tained probably fatal injuries in a re markable manner last night. She re cently moved into a house said to be haunted, on account of the mysterious death of a young lady there some year) ago. A woman in black has been seen to rise out of the floor there, according to superstitious villagers. Last night Mrs. Aleshire starved down the cellar with a kettle of apole butter, and sua denly she saw a figure in black rise. to it seemed, from the cellar floor. " it® a scream she fell headlong down the steps with fright. She is not expected to live, as her leg is broken and she a dreadfully scalded. No trace was foun of the ghost. A FIERY EDITOR. He Write* Bitter Article* and Hu Ofllee ISurneil. Lebanon, Tenn., Oct. 10.—To Lebanon Observer, .whose fiery c 1 torials on certain officials have for scv eral days kept the town in a stir, '13* burned last night between 1 an ' o’clock. It is said to be the 'v , nn incendiary. Probably a da. fights in which several persons been more or less injured have resu - from the editor’s attack on t-iri Judge R. L. Cantrell. More trouble brewing. __ Guard* t > I'rrMrv* Order. Ci.ifton Forge, Va., Oct. 19.—1 has been no renewal today of the 1 turbances caused by the lynching , negro rioters. The Monticella g of Charlottsville are on hand to P serve order if needed but no out is expected. The Navy Displayed Enmity; London, Oct. 19.—The Times raio dispatch says impartia nee confirms the statement t a., „ lited States squadron in ,jis iters, both in words and dec * ^ jyed enmity towards the % lal navy during the recent